Use the Tab key in user-created keyboard shortcuts in Snow Leopard. In OS X 10.5, pressing the Tab key while creating keyboard shortcuts (in the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences panel) didn’t work; the system would just beep and not accept the Tab key.
In Snow Leopard you can now use the Tab key in any combination with the Shift, Control, Command, and Option keys. For example, you could change the Exposé All Windows activation keystroke to Option-Tab, which might make sense if you’re used to using Command-Tab to switch applications and want to have a similarly-assigned shortcut for Exposé.
Open the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard System Preferences panel
Select the Exposé & Spaces entry in the left-hand column
Click on the All Windows entry below Exposé in the right-hand column.
Double-click on the right-hand side of that entry
And just press Option-Tab
and you’re done.
You can now use the Tab key in your user-defined shortcuts, which opens up a number of additional keyboard combinations.
If you want to quickly change your sound input device, simply Option-Click the Sound menu at the top of your screen to enable an alternate menu pulldown list of input devices.
This trick is much faster than launching into the System Preferences and adjusting from microphone to line-in audio source. As far as I know this is new to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
While not much of a hint, for those who do not like their minimized windows taking up so much space in the Dock, now you can have them minimize into the dock icon.
Open the Dock System Preferences panel,
Check the Minimize windows into application icon option.
Once you do that, minimized windows will disappear into their source application’s Dock icon.
If you want to quickly change your sound input device, simply Option-Click the Sound menu at the top of your screen to enable an alternate menu pulldown list of input devices.
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